do1more’s BodyBlog

This has got to stop……….. My diet is good for 5 days or so, and then it goes to hell for 2 or 3.  

My problems range from buying a box of cereal-  and eating the WHOLE box- to eating multiple yogurts and or power bars……………….  Seems nothing is safe.

Size goes up size goes down. My range is about 3 to 5 pounds and it is really aggravating me.  One day my clothes fit – 3 days later they are tight. 

Simple will power is hard to come by – I know I can do it, but a consistent effort sustained for more than 5 days in a row is SO Hard.

It’s not even like I am eating total crap!  We are talking shredded wheat for Pete’s sake!!!! 

I figure the best way to help myself is to just confess, clear my mental table of guilt, and try really hard to fix my stumbling block. 

In an added effort to mend my evil ways, I am adding in some additional cardio- something I have not done for a very long time, but if I want to bust through this sticking point – well – desperate measures MUST BE TAKEN! 

The good news (ha- there is a silver lining here) is that these “binges” have helped in muscle formation; things that have never been muscular are for sure changing! 

Still the minuses outweigh the plus’s………… so it’s time to put the hammer DOWN.

Well, the title is prolly better than the blog entry, telling you that RIGHT NOW!

After over 6 months of pissing around at this "exercise" thing, I have tried a whole bunch of stuff. I keep coming back to weight training as the thing that seems to satisfy me the most.

So I have been doing 3 days a week pretty religiously now. My weight is dropping, clothes are not fitting right, my carcass is changing. Long story short - what I am doing seems to at least be having an effect.

However my approach has been sort of shotgun. Working mostly my whole body on every work out. Increasing weights and or reps  as the exercise gets easier.But changing exercises to frequently to really track progress.

I seemed to have too many exercises and spend too long in the gym, it feels like I was holding back just so I could make it through to the end.
Then I got to reading about different types of workouts. This of course overtaxed my mind and caused me to totally get confused by the multitude of exercises available. After 3 weeks of study I think I have finally got a workout program ready!

I decided to go with a 2 day split. Mon., Wed., and Fri.  Lower Body one day, upper body alternating day.  Seven exercises and one alternate for each day. Get in - get her done- and bail.

Sounds good…maybe.

I will let you know.

As a person who is "middle aged" I am certainly having trouble figuring this whole body improvement thing out. As you all know there is a huge volumn of information out there to choose from. Used to be you read a book or magazine article or three - maybe went to the library if you were really serious about researching something and got down to business making it happen.

…………..now……….Ask Google or Jeeves or MaMa and  POW you have a world of information at your feet!  For me anyway, this is sometimes (hell- always) way to much information. To make matters worse, in a lot of subjects you will find severely conflicting views presented as fact.

So in matters of importance like diet and exercise, I have tried to make what I hope will be healthy choices for me. The hardest part of this is that it takes time to find out if the choices you have made are the RIGHT ONES. This is a heck of a thing, because like most folks I want to know NOW before I put my time and effort into what may possibly be a program that won’t work for me.

This brings me to one of the things I like best about sites like BB.com. Within this community that we belong to there is a wide cross section of knowledge. Ask a question and you will most assuredly get an answer, probably 2 or 7 even, in fact they might even all agree with each other!

True, no one will make your decisions or do your workout for you, but the fact that you are all there together, sharing in the sometimes frustrating, sometimes joyous, sometimes boring condition of being human and trying to improve  - well -  it helps me.  So I just thought I would say Thanks.